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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase mRNA expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma-derived cell lines is upregulated by inflammatory cytokines.
Journal of oral science - 1 Mar 2012
Miyazaki Yuji, Inoue Harumi, Kikuchi Kentaro, Ochiai Kuniyasu, Kusama Kaoru
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) induces cytosine deamination to generate somatic hypermutation and class switch recombnation in immunoglobulin genes. AID expression is upregulated by inflammatory cytokines such as interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, which in turn induce p53 mutations in inflammatory or cancer cells. In this study, the effects of growth factors, cytokines or sodium butyrate...
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